Lecture Structure
Lecture Structure
- Climate Change in the Mediterranean Basin
- Mediterranean warming trends and projections;
- Climate extremes and environmental pressures;
- Sea-level rise and coastal flooding;
- Coastal urbanisation and ecosystem pressures;
- Why coastal areas are particularly vulnerable.
- Understanding Coastal Risks
- Definitions of risk, hazard, vulnerability, and exposure;
- Disaster risk governance;
- Climate-related vs non-climate-related risks;
- Historical disasters and lessons learned;
- Human and economic dimensions of disasters.
- Governance, Policy and Adaptation
- Science-policy interface;
- Role of governance in resilience-building;
- International frameworks for climate adaptation;
- The ICZM Protocol and Mediterranean cooperation;
- Climate adaptation as a long-term governance process.
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Principles and objectives of ICZM;
- Coastal planning as a tool for adaptation;
- Stakeholder participation and co-development;
- Five-step ICZM Coastal Planning process;
- Strategic visioning and implementation.
- Case Studies from the Mediterranean
- Morocco – Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma Coastal Plan
- Croatia – Kaštela Bay and Split-Dalmatia County
- Future Coastal Resilience Pathways
- Nature-based adaptation measures;
- Monitoring and implementation challenges;
- Living coastal plans and adaptive governance;
- Role of young professionals in climate resilience.